Site is a graveyard - How can boards save itself? [Threadbanned users in 1st post]

I think he lost interest very soon after starting, if he ever had any interest that is.

I recognize all the posters in this thread. And it's not because I post often. The userbase is shrinking

I've never had positive interactions with moderators online in general but the ones here are particularly aggressive and speak to you like a school teacher would. I have loads of warnings from them but learned to stop even opening their messages.

When it comes to that mod, I know I will be targeted. Multiple threads now. And that's because I complained about the mod and their treatment of posters on Feedback (related to the Tubridy thread). Numerous good posters lost due to the mod's behavior on that thread. Of course, that feedback thread was binned. The usual clique. Within a short time to that, I got banned from the Gangland thread for posting about drugs and their ties to gangland when it's about gangland hits. When I tried to create a gangland and drugs thread, it was closed because there was already a gangland thread!!! That's the kind of targeting posters are talking about and sick of, I'd imagine. Same mod warns me for posting about Donaldson's expenses from 2009 - yet it was absolutely nothing related to the recent charges which the mod said not to post about. You can't win. Looks like that mod has been taken off the thread now but no good to me or you when we've been warned or thread banned.

I'm here since 2007, it was great craic.

For me, the downfall started with the GDPR and account closure option, combined with discussion limits (rightly or wrongly), Vanilla clusterfcuk, changing demographics, and site leadership lack of communication killed it.

It's had a minor bounce back, but I'm not sure how long it realistically has left

@BaywatchHQ

I usually post about blackpill incel related topics so it is very easy to rack up the down votes.

Sounds like you'd be happier on 4Chan.

We all know over moderation is a big part in how the site died.

But also new members and low post count members, never get given time to grow,, You see it all the time,, Some new guy starts a thread, and then gets pounced on by the usual clique, and run off the site.

It is a discussion board,, but there is a certain clique on here and some out of touch Mods,, That seem to want to shut down any discussion that does not fit in with how they think.

There is a trend of a few posters combining forces to bait posters into saying something terrible, resulting in a ban. Fair enough ban the guy that says the terrible thing but surely baiting fails the 'don't be a dick' threshold.

A tiny number of posters have banded together and are successfully getting posters banned left right and centre across multiple threads.

The basic rule of "Don't be a dick" still stands.

It doesn't really though. As I've commented before, for a site whose mantra is 'don't be a dick', Boards has always tolderated a staggering amount of dickishness.

How often did we see some clown in prison and a mod/admin pointing out that they've had 9 reds and 16 yellows and they're just back from their second site ban in 6 months or whatever.

That kind of poster should be permanently gotten rid of before they've amassed even half that kind of record.

Mods and admin can argue that this is the process at work, but it's glacially slow, and in the meantime, those posters pollute as much as they can, for as long as they can, and it absolutely does have an effect on the extent to which the kind of poster Boards wants to keep (or should want to keep) can be bothered engaging with threads, fora, and the site itself.